New Perspectives on Contemporary Chinese Poetry

are still quite different. That no one has devoted a chapter to the study of Hong Kong poets is a regrettable result not of our ...

relations with indigenous and foreign traditions, Yeh problematizes the continuing concern with Chineseness over modernity. Cont ...

Nationalist retreat to Taiwan in the late-1940s, although explicit and implicit censorship existed, creative writers including s ...

Taiwan Strait. Andrea Lingenfelter’s discussion of these two important woman poets who are only a year apart in age raises an in ...

consciousness does not, however, demonstrate alarmist or didactic inclinations, but rather the seamless reformulations of how th ...

have crept into the creative palette of this new generation of poets. In addition, he examines the egalitarian benefits of Inter ...

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Chapter Two “There Are no Camels in the Koran”: What Is Modern about Modern Chinese Poetry? Michelle Yeh In 1951, in response to ...

I use the word “market” broadly to include the academy as well. For the insistence on literature as representation resonates wit ...

Chineseness should mean, how it should be represented, and who should represent it as constituting the “myth of authenticity” or ...

capitalism, replete with their mechanisms of callings, opportunities, and rewards” (48). By questioning literature as representa ...

language—a language used by the masses in everyday life as opposed to a language that was allegedly overly Westernized and eliti ...

the civil service examination system, and the rise of the modern media and publishing system, among other factors. Poetry is no ...

enduring beauty and value of Classical Poetry as China’s unique contribution to the world. In contrast, Modern Poetry may seem “ ...

transportation, and other elements of daily life—is not only taken for granted but actively sought after in China. Even when we ...

introduce “new diction” <=and “new perspectives” >境and to revive “ancient styles” @ABin poetry. As a result of the first ...

premodern vernacular, modern vernacular, Japanese and European loan words, neologism, various Chinese regionalisms, translated w ...

pronoun (often omitted in Classical Chinese); the number of words vary irregularly in each line; the use of modern punctuation; ...

Numerous critics have noted the Zhuangzi allusion in the image of the butterfly. Many also have identified the reference to René ...

The formal revolution clearly illustrates the experimental spirit of Modern Chinese Poetry to “make it new.” The first collectio ...